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Price high for sex offender treatment expansion

By "eAdvocate"

12-20-2009 Kansas:SRS seeks $40M to increase capacity at Larned State HospitalTopeka ? Facing perhaps the worst budget crisis in state history, some lawmakers are balking at the prospect of spending tens of millions of dollars to expand the controversial Sexual Predator Treatment Program.The program treats convicted sex offenders who have finished their prison sentences, but are kept confined through a civil commitment because of an assessment that they would be a continuing threat to the community.But the program?s costs continue to increase, and some have questioned its effectiveness.There are currently 189 people in the program, which is housed at Larned State Hospital. The capacity at Larned for the program is 214, and that is expected to be surpassed in 2012...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 20, 2009 (boomark / email).